Schools and school districts are welcome to modify this rubric or create their own rubrics for teachers to use when earning professional development credit from K-12 Online. If your school is using an alternate rubric, please link it here along with other information about your school or district.
Example: School Name. City, State, Country. Web link to utilized rubric.
Preamble
Use this rubric to help you maintain a professional development record of the K12 Online sessions you attend. We suggest you use this rubric for each session individually and for the conference as a whole. We hope that this approach will both inform your professional practice and any applications you make for a new job or an educational course.
Questions
Your name
Name of session
Conference strand
(a) Main points made ("Takeaways"); (b) Questions the participant has now after viewing the presentation
URLs of session and further resources
What did you gain from the session in terms of your personal professional development? (See "Methodology" below)
How will you apply the learning to your professional situation?
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> This may include both "quick wins" and longer-term changes. Bear in mind that it would be useful to plan changes in a way that allows you to measure their impact. This will often entail stating the outcomes as questions you want to be answered.
Other questions to consider in this context:
a) What are you trying to achieve?b) How do you organise learning (to achieve it)?c) How well are you achieving your aims?.
What other resources, including reading material, are relevant to this?
In this context you could also ask about other people's contribution and role including pupils, assistants, parents, and consider the environment and dynamics of their proposed application. Some of this is embedded in question 7.
Format
Here are some suggestions for the format of your answers to the questions above. Note that these are suggestions, and may not be acceptable in your particular circumstances.
A short video (5 to 10 minutes long), accessible from a site such as TeacherTube
A short digital story created with VoiceThread, BubbleShare, or another website permitting voice-annotated images
A narrated digital story created with a software tool like PhotoStory3, Moviemaker, or iMovie.
A short podcast
A short presentation
As a blog post to a personal blog or a social networking site
As a page on a wiki site created by the participant
A mindmap
A text document
You may wish to use Social bookmarking to share resources (Q8)
Do include the date and time in your presentation, and your location if relevant (it nearly always is).
Can you think of how your "production" might be shared with, and commented on by, others? In fact, who is your audience?
Note that this rubric applies mainly to a single presentation. How will you reflect on your learning from the conference as a whole?
Participants are responsible for insuring the content (both images and audio) used in their web-posted reflection complies with copyright / intellectual property laws. Use of Creative Commons licensed images in published digital stories is encouraged.
We need to keep these materials to use for marketing purposes next year!~~Cindy
*Sorry I missed the meeting, I was in the middle of training teachers today..Read the script though, seems like you got some items going...I WILL BE AT THE NEXT ONE, I am not a slacker (usually) just haven't been available for the first two meetings....Put me to work...I want to help!~~Cindy
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Professional Development Record
Please note that this is available in multiple formats:
Schools and school districts are welcome to modify this rubric or create their own rubrics for teachers to use when earning professional development credit from K-12 Online. If your school is using an alternate rubric, please link it here along with other information about your school or district.
Example: School Name. City, State, Country. Web link to utilized rubric.
Preamble
Use this rubric to help you maintain a professional development record of the K12 Online sessions you attend. We suggest you use this rubric for each session individually and for the conference as a whole. We hope that this approach will both inform your professional practice and any applications you make for a new job or an educational course.Questions
- Your name
- Name of session
- Conference strand
- (a) Main points made ("Takeaways"); (b) Questions the participant has now after viewing the presentation
- URLs of session and further resources
- What did you gain from the session in terms of your personal professional development? (See "Methodology" below)
- How will you apply the learning to your professional situation?
>> This may include both "quick wins" and longer-term changes. Bear in mind that it would be useful to plan changes in a way that allows you to measure their impact. This will often entail stating the outcomes as questions you want to be answered.
In this context you could also ask about other people's contribution and role including pupils, assistants, parents, and consider the environment and dynamics of their proposed application. Some of this is embedded in question 7.
Format
Here are some suggestions for the format of your answers to the questions above. Note that these are suggestions, and may not be acceptable in your particular circumstances.- A short video (5 to 10 minutes long), accessible from a site such as TeacherTube
- A short digital story created with VoiceThread, BubbleShare, or another website permitting voice-annotated images
- A narrated digital story created with a software tool like PhotoStory3, Moviemaker, or iMovie.
- A short podcast
- A short presentation
- As a blog post to a personal blog or a social networking site
- As a page on a wiki site created by the participant
- A mindmap
- A text document
- You may wish to use Social bookmarking to share resources (Q8)
Do include the date and time in your presentation, and your location if relevant (it nearly always is).Can you think of how your "production" might be shared with, and commented on by, others? In fact, who is your audience?
Note that this rubric applies mainly to a single presentation. How will you reflect on your learning from the conference as a whole?
Participants are responsible for insuring the content (both images and audio) used in their web-posted reflection complies with copyright / intellectual property laws. Use of Creative Commons licensed images in published digital stories is encouraged.
We need to keep these materials to use for marketing purposes next year!~~Cindy
*Sorry I missed the meeting, I was in the middle of training teachers today..Read the script though, seems like you got some items going...I WILL BE AT THE NEXT ONE, I am not a slacker (usually) just haven't been available for the first two meetings....Put me to work...I want to help!~~Cindy
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